1. On February 15, 1915, the first interstate highway in Alabama was created when the Dixie Highway Association officially designated a route from Chicago to Miami that passed through Alabama.

2. In 1944, during World War II, the USS Alabama battleship was commissioned on February 15. The ship served in both the Pacific and Atlantic theaters and is now a museum ship in Mobile, Alabama.

3. The Alabama State Parks System was established on February 15, 1939, when the state legislature passed a bill creating the Alabama Department of Conservation and authorizing the creation of state parks.

4. On February 15, 1953, civil rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. This event sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement.

5. The Tuskegee Airmen, the first group of African American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces, were recognized on February 15, 2007, when the state of Alabama posthumously awarded them honorary diplomas from Tuskegee University. The Tuskegee Airmen were trained at the Tuskegee Army Airfield in Alabama during World War II.